The Missouri Crisis created a division over slavery that profoundly and ominously shaped sectional identities and rivalries as never before. Conflict over the uneasy balance between slave and free states in Congress came to a head when Missouri petitioned to join the Union as a slave state in 181...
The Missouri Crisis: Change, Continuity, and Topical DiversityWatson, SamuelSouthern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South
The War, Perceptual Revolution and the Missouri Synod CrisisGroh, John E
Investigationes Missourienses: The Missouri Secession Crisis Project The contested state of Missouri was the site of the United States’ longest civil conflict, stretching from 1854 well into the mid-1870’s. While the state’s experience with violence began with pro-slavery militancy in Kansas, ...
when Congress ordered southern states to eliminate racial discrimination in voting, African Americans began to win elections across the South. In a short time, the South was transformed from an all-white, pro-slavery, Democratic stronghold to a collection of Republican-led states with African Americ...
The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775. According to historian Alfred Young, the term“Boston Tea Party”did not appear in print until 1834. Before that time, the event was usually referred to as the“destruction of the tea”. According to Young,...
I began to wonder if I might write a book someday, but then I would find a book that expressed my ideas or feelings better than I could and say, “See, I hasn’t meant to be a writer.” My own version of a midlife crisis at age 49 changed my mind. I felt like I had to wr...
But one moment in particular stood out: When she mentioned the assassination attempt on the former president, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law raised her fist — as he had on Saturday from within the tangle of Secret Service agents. The crowd immediately began shouting, “Fight!” Kelly Ga...
This term, which began in October 2023, follows two in which the Supreme Court handed down consequential decisionsunwinding the constitutional right to abortionandbringing to an end affirmative actionin higher education. The justiceskicked off this latest slateof cases with several involving administrativ...
But one moment in particular stood out: When she mentioned the assassination attempt on the former president, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law raised her fist — as he had on Saturday from within the tangle of Secret Service agents. The crowd immediately began shouting, “Fight!” Kelly G...